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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5434495, member: 110504"][USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER], in light of your typically formidable erudition, it's frankly a little embarrassing to point out something as mundanely semantic as this. Except, the obverse legend is not counterclockwise. You could just say, 'from 1 (or 2) o'clock.' </p><p>...Where the varieties of retrograde legends are concerned, medieval folks have an edge, even in relation to Julio-Claudian and Flavian precedent. (Where the letters of the inscriptions start from the outer border, instead of ending there.) Sometimes the letters themselves are engraved backwards, as if the die-sinker (illiterate or not) was copying a prototype too literally to take into account the mere mechanics involved in the striking process. ...Right, to mix cliche, that was my two cents, for what they're worth.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5434495, member: 110504"][USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER], in light of your typically formidable erudition, it's frankly a little embarrassing to point out something as mundanely semantic as this. Except, the obverse legend is not counterclockwise. You could just say, 'from 1 (or 2) o'clock.' ...Where the varieties of retrograde legends are concerned, medieval folks have an edge, even in relation to Julio-Claudian and Flavian precedent. (Where the letters of the inscriptions start from the outer border, instead of ending there.) Sometimes the letters themselves are engraved backwards, as if the die-sinker (illiterate or not) was copying a prototype too literally to take into account the mere mechanics involved in the striking process. ...Right, to mix cliche, that was my two cents, for what they're worth.[/QUOTE]
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